The lack of attention to lesbians was because of nation-building and biology. They needed all the sperm and uteruses they could get to make proper babies for the new culture they were starting. Gay men were not likely to put a penis in a vag to make a baby, but a lesbian can be made pregnant whether she wanted it or…

"My point was just to say that, for the sake of argument, just because someone is born that way doesn't mean they must stay that way."

Nope, still awful. You're still equating gayness with something that is best repaired or cured. Also, you don't "go gay" or "ungay". This is still a false equivalence. Being gay is…

Still not zero. (Yes, I'm aware I'm being a smartass.)

According to what Loki says in the Lokasenna, I would tend to day yes. Loki is totally DTF. And he doesn't have a problem *ahem* shapechanging (he is the mother of Odin's 8 legged horse after all).

You can get nicotine-free liquid if you vape for the flavor. Even hookahs can be enjoyed for flavor without tobacco—they use crushed sugar cane plant materials that have had all the sugar extracted.

Any nightshade plant you eat is not nicotine free because nightshades produce nicotine. This includes potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant. (Tobacco is another nightshade.)

This. E-cig vapor has a chance to have second-hand detrimental effects only if you are in a 3-foot high airtight phone booth with a vaper.

I asked my daughter about this one time and she told me no, the kids she knew who smoked did it to be edgy and rebellious. E-cigs are totally nerdy because they are safer and full of technology. Nerdy doesn't convey the "edgy and rebellious" image.

My more hip daughter told me that kids would never bother with e-cigs. They are nerdy, and smoking is supposed to be rebellious, edgy, and dangerous which nerdy is the antithesis of.

Some folks just don't talk to kids.

Papua New Guinea you say? You mean the place where it's still okay to publicly behead people who are suspected of witchcraft?

Nice company we got, 'Murrika.

The other country is Papua New Guinea? You mean the place where, this last summer, a schoolteacher was publicly beheaded for witchcraft?

Nice company we got, 'Murrika.

Sometimes I have to wonder though if the "light skin = $ucce$$" thing begins with classism and spills into racism. Someone here mentioned that white skin was a Thing To Want in China, which was also true (if memory serves) in other Asian countries, as well as India (Kali was originally Parvati's shed black skin), and…

Same here. This is why (among a TON of other reasons) why I loved living in Honolulu. It mattered less that I was white than anywhere else I've lived except for that one year in Korea. (Except for the fact that I *always* had to ask for chopsticks both places. The horror.)

But the assholes teach their kids how to be assholes.

"I've never met a white person that felt that way or treated anyone as if they were less human because of their skin color."

I'm glad you don't live here in Alabama. Unfortunately I see it all the time, I hear it all the time. I hear it from folks from the supposedly "enlightened" not-Southern areas (omg coworker…

No mead love.

I see how it is.

**busts out the homemade stash of mixed-berry melomel**

I am somewhat turned on by this. In really diverse sorts of ways that are not all connected to my pants. (A few are. Don't worry. There's still a pulse in this old lady.)

I love sour cream but I have discovered that plain no-fat Greek yogurt is a delicious replacement. (I hate dieting but healthy replacements that are delicious delight me.)

I love this. I think I will follow your lead, and add in some gastrointestinal tract issues. Especially color and consistency.

I worried for two nights because Rigatoni escaped on the first really cold night (along with his mother but she had the sense to let me recapture her). He probably was cheating on me with a neighbor but I still worried myself sick until he came home last night. I can't imagine someone abandoning a cat like this on…